SC - Documented Substitutions (Long)
CBlackwill at aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Wed Apr 26 21:37:19 PDT 2000
In a message dated 4/26/00 8:47:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, LrdRas at aol.com
writes:
> << A new dish was created. >>
>
> Exactly. And we have no way of knowing if any 'new dishes' we create were
> ever created or served in the middle ages. Your position is not untenable
> when applied to informal cookery. However, it simply does not appear to be
a
>
> solid position when applied to formal cookery.
I'll concede on this point.
> Without a solid knowledge of humoral theory, such substitutions as you
> propose outside the Corpus simply cannot be proven as being done. You seem
> to
> assume a high degree personal freedom existed during the middle ages,
> especially among the Guilds, which in reality was unknown.
This may be true (I am not entirely familiar with the culinary guilds of the
middle ages), but I am laboring under the impression that a number of these
manuscripts are not "Guild material". Le Menagier, for instance, was written
by a French lord for his wife, and not for "high feasts" or royal banquets.
I am not convinced, yet, that the authors of these books were, necessarily,
Guild members. Of course, you may have proof to the contrary, which I would
love to see.
Balthazar of Blackmoor
Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.
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